If you could own any painting or work of art. What would it be?

One of the posters on Mumsnet said that when she was at Uni students were able to borrow paintings to hang on their walls for a year from the Uni collection and then return them. I wonder if schools are able to borrow art works/prints for a short time from a centrail art library.

I just have last years Ravilious calendar Grammaretto but I did weave a series of fabrics based on his work once.

I'm another fan of Ravilious and have one of his above my fireplace. a print you understand

I'm fickle in my taste or perhaps eclectic and have an assortment of paintings on my walls, many painted by my friends.

I don't have an absolute favourite.

Helterskelter I love Ravilious but most especially his lithographs.
Fabulous.

Eric Ravillious - almost any of his landscape pictures, but if forced to choose 'the White Horse', a view across the Berkshire downs witht the Uffington White horse on the horizon.

That is my land and since our move I have missed it so much.

I am sure there was a Ryan Mutter on Antiques Roadshow. Maybe the Flying Scotsman. Very powerful work. I see what you mean about the worn faces. One picture I have just found has a small group of working men. Tired faces. Also I like the picture of a barge sailing past Battersea

Salvator Mundi.

Renoir’s ‘Poppy Field’. I find the impressionists so life affirming.

‘Salvatore Mandi’ Da Vinci. grannysb I also cried when I saw the Pieta in the Vatican.

Scandalised masks by James Ensor. Mkakes me smile..

My choice would be Breughel's Hunter's In The Snow. It's been my favourite since I first became aware of it 60 years ago. My second choice would be Giorgione's The Tempest.

The Tom Denny stained glass is stunning Keepcalm. Such vibrant colours. You certainly can have your choice of window.

Another vote for Dali,s Christ of St John of the cross.As children ifit was a wet Sunday,that was at least two out of four we were taken to Kelvingrove.The museum / Art Gallery was like a second home to us.
I did the same with my children until weddings became legal on Sundays ,though we still had regular visits.
I have a second artist too,Ryan Mutter for his incredible clydeside shipyard scenes with worn faces and tired men pouring out of the .yard .They are simply breathtaking

I have several works by Pete Monaghan a Welsh artist who uses mixed media mostly corrugated cardboard. I love his work.

Turner’s ’The Fighting Temeraire’, wonderful use of colour, so atmospheric,
I also deeply admire Picasso’s ‘Guernica’, so much so that I went specifically to Madrid to see it. I couldn’t have it hanging on my wall though (even if I had the room!)…too sad and haunting.

I almost forgot I would love an original Eric Ravilious painting of the South Downs chalk and flint hills.

Claude Monet's "The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil". Such a beautiful sunlit garden path with sunflowrs and the two little children. I have a print of it and it always cheers me up, particularly in the dark gloomy winter time.

I would choose Not of the Fold by Frederick Morgan, a beautiful painting in it's own right but also very meaningful to me. I'm a huge fan of John Piper too and find his work very powerful . Oh, and are we also allowed some stained glass as I love Tom Denny's awe inspiring creations.

Mumsnet can be very in your face, but so many of the posters said what a lovely thread it was and how they enjoyed reading it.

Thank you HelterSkelter, I'm really grateful for that little bit of extra information; I'm delighted to finally know her name.

NotSpaghetti. The programme was Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art presented by Waldemar Januszczak in 2018 on BBC4. The picture was so distinctive. They look so hardworking and straightforward.

What a lovely thread! I love the pre-Raphaelites. I don’t know what I would choose though. As with so many things it depends on the day.

Another Scottish Colourist fan here. A Peploe or JD Fergusson for me please.
If I had room maybe one of the Money water lily murals from the Orangerie too would be nice.

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I love it J52. So peaceful. It has the same stillness and simplicity as the Peploe painting of Iona which was my choice at the beginning.

I think he was influenced by Peploe, they painted in the same locations

Sago did you see his big London exhibition some years ago - I think it was at the RA... I was amazed by his fabulous moody charcoal drawings which I'd not been aware of before.
They were stunning.

David Hockney “The Arrival of Spring at Woldgate”

I have many Hockney prints at our holiday let, they are so vibrant, I find them very uplifting.

Despite having walked the Wolds over the years I never saw the great man at work, I do know where the “Big Trees at Warter”are though.